A concise history of business in Canada /
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Toronto ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. The merging of early commercial traditions to 1663
- Business practice in North America and Europe at the time of contact
- Companies and commerce in North America: the case of fur, 1603-1663
- pt. 2. The colonial business of New France, 1663-1763
- Crown, colony, and business endeavour: an introduction and a framework
- In pursuit of certainty: Canada's fur frontier, 1653-1763
- Old regime business in the new world: merchants, craft producers, and peasant farmers
- pt. 3. Colonial capitalism in transition: 1791-1871
- Setting the contours for colonial capitalism: an introduction
- The business of fur: 1763-1871
- Arrested transition: Atlantic Canada
- From hinterland to heartland: Upper Canada/Ontario
- Farm, factory, and finance: Lower Canada/Quebec
- Ties that bind: railways, tariffs, and business, 1867-1885
- pt. 4. The age of business consolidation, 1885-1929
- Commanding heights
- Networks of progress
- Gifts of nature
- Nation builders
- Integration and disintegration
- Part 5. The age of the activist state, 1930-1984
- The incomplete Leviathan
- The arsenal economy
- 'Province builders'
- Millionaires, mandarins, and multinationals
- Epilogue. Leaping in the dark.